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Dr. William Stallings' SDN, NFV, and QoE: Foundations of Modern Networkingis a comprehensive and unified survey of modern networking technology and applications for today's technical professionals, business professionals, and students. Using the same teaching approach that has earned him 13 "Computer Science Textbook of the Year" Awards, Dr. Stallings imparts a thorough understanding of SDN technology: how it works, how it is deployed, and how enterprises of all sizes can use it to deliver superior Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE). Step by step, Stallings illuminates a wide range of crucial issues and technologies associated with modern networking in modern cloud-oriented, mobile, and big data environments. He offers complete and self-contained coverage of each technology area, helping readers gain mastery without resorting to other reference material. Coverage includes:

A new network paradigm: how revolutionary enterprise requirements and technologies are driving the need for complex, software-defined, QoS/QoE-aware networks